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This astounding information comes from a high-ranking government
source with detailed knowledge of the arrangement. Though it’s being
investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for fraud, United States Investigations Services
(USIS), has been taking over a lot of administrative processing of
immigration benefit applications, the inside source told Judicial Watch.
The scandal-plagued company is also handling sensitive immigration
files, despite its well-documented transgressions.

It’s preposterous that a company under fraud investigation is still
allowed to handle sensitive government applications, JW’s source
logically points out. Here’s how it happens; Most of USIS’s executives
are retired officials who worked for the influential Senior Executive Service at
the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency that operates
and oversees nearly every government activity in dozens of federal
agencies. Their connections help them land federal contracts, JW’s
source says, and once they land the lucrative deals they convince the
government to let them do their own quality assurance so they cut
corners.

The serious corner cutting came to light after Snowden, a National
Security Administration contractor, divulged thousands of classified
documents to the media. USIS, which handles the bulk of background
checks for government security clearances, had conducted Snowden’s
background check as well as the clearance for Navy Yard shooter Aaron
Alexis. Since the two breaches occurred, former USIS employees have come
forward accusing the company of unrealistic deadlines and workloads,
dumping cases and producing incomplete background checks to meet revenue
goals.

As part of its fraud probe of USIS, which is based in Falls Church, Virginia, the DOJ filed a lawsuit in
federal court earlier this year accusing the contractor of failing to
adequately conduct security checks in 40% of the cases it handled for
the government. USIS submitted at least 665,000 incomplete background
checks to OPM, the agency that officially contracts firms to do
government work, the complaint says. It further alleges that USIS dumped
and flushed cases, falsely representing them as completed, to maximize
the company’s revenues and profits.

Months before it filed the complaint, the DOJ announced
that it had launched an investigation of USIS, which the agency
revealed had been contracted by the U.S. government since 1996 to
perform background investigations on individuals seeking employment with
various federal agencies. In the announcement a high-ranking federal
prosecutor said USIS’s shortcuts would not be tolerated and that the DOJ
would take action against those who charge taxpayers for services they
failed to provide, “services that could place our country’s security at
risk.”

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